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🇪🇷 Eritrea

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Tier 1 · Markets

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Official rate, 10-year annual average (World Bank)

1515.51620142017202020232025

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Tier 2 · Policy & Prices

Policy & Prices

Policy rate

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Inflation

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Yield curve

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Tier 3 · Structure

Structure & trajectory

Annual indicators, latest available year on each card · Sources: World Bank / UN / IMF WEO Oct 2025 / V-Dem / EIA

11 of 16 indicators improving improving

Rule: for each metric with at least two observations, direction is the sign of (latest − earliest). Child mortality, $3/day poverty, national poverty, debt service, debt-to-GDP, and the Gini index are inverted (a decline is improvement). Overall: improving if ≥60% of those metrics improved, mixed if 40–60%, worsening if <40%.

Population

3.6M · 2025

3.1M3.4M3.6M201520172019202120232025

↑ 511,830 since 2014

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GDP per capita (PPP)

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GDP per capita growth

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Life expectancy

68.9 years · 2024

656769201420162018202020222024

↑ 3.4 years since 2014

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Child mortality

34.3 per 1,000 · 2024

344148201420162018202020222024

↓ 13.8 since 2014

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Internet users

14.3% · 2020

1%7.5%14%2014201620182020

↑ 13.4 pts since 2014

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Manufacturing share of GDP

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Electricity access

55.3% · 2024

44%49.5%55%201420162018202020222024

↑ 10.7 pts since 2014

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Poverty ($3/day)

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National poverty line

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Adult literacy

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Debt service / exports

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Exports of goods and services

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GDP growth

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GDP

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Unemployment

6% · 2025

5.7%6.1%6.5%201520172019202120232025

↑ 0.3 pts since 2014

ILO modeled estimate — national definitions differ

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FDI inflows

$-27.9M · 2024

$-60.7M$0$61M201420162018202020222024

↓ $74.5M since 2014

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Remittances

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External debt

$693.3M · 2024

$690M$800M$910M201420162018202020222024

↓ $214.3M since 2014

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Agriculture share of GDP

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Services share of GDP

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Investment rate

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Terms of trade

99.00 · 2024

88.0099.00110.00201420162018202020222024

↓ 6.80 since 2014

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FX reserves

$191.7M · 2019

$140M$165M$190M201420152016201720182019

↑ $39.9M since 2014

includes gold

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Lending rate

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Deposit rate

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Gini index

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Health expenditure

3.7% · 2023

3.6%4.1%4.6%2014201820202023

↓ 0.2 pts since 2014

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Physicians

0.1 per 1,000 · 2022

0.0660.0770.08820142016201820202022

↑ 0 since 2014

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Tertiary enrollment

3.2% · 2016

3.2%3.6%4.1%201420152016

↓ 0.9 pts since 2014

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Tourist arrivals

142,000 · 2016

110,000125,000140,000201420152016

↑ 23,000 since 2014

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Account ownership

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Exports per capita derived

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Median age

18.7 years · 2023

1718192014201820202023

↑ 1.3 years since 2014

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Government revenue / GDP

34% · 2019

21%29%37%201420152016201720182019

↑ 12.5 pts since 2014

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Debt to GDP

260.4% · 2019

200%245%290%201420152016201720182019

↑ 55.9 pts since 2014

Source: IMF WEO · latest 1–2 years are IMF estimates

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Gross debt (national currency)

ERN 77.8B · 2019

ERN 77BERN 80.5BERN 84B201420152016201720182019

↓ ERN 4.1B since 2014

Source: IMF WEO · latest 1–2 years are IMF estimates

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Current account / GDP

13% · 2019

12%18.5%25%201420152016201720182019

↓ 4.7 pts since 2014

Source: IMF WEO · latest 1–2 years are IMF estimates

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Budget balance / GDP

2.7% · 2019

-6%0%6%201420152016201720182019

↑ 2.8 pts since 2014

Source: IMF WEO · latest 1–2 years are IMF estimates

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Electoral democracy

0.07 · 2025

0.0680.06950.071201520172019202120232025

↓ 0.00 since 2014

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Trade profile

Exports

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Imports

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Balance derived

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no recent report

Top exports

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Top imports

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